[Cryptography] Sadly predictable: Terrorism used as excuse to attack encryption

[grarpamp]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com> wrote:
> media accounts were already posting pictures of the Eiffel Tower along with
> "God bless you on your mission" 72 hours before the attack:
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3320732/ISIS-supporters-shared-images-Eiffel-Tower-weapons-social-media-72-hours-Paris-attack-urged-God-bless-mission.html
>
> It would be rather ironic if ISIS committed an opsec failure that bad which
> intelligence services weren't able to pick up on, and yet encryption is
> blamed anyway.

Years of news reports has shown they don't consider it
opsec failure but modus operandi. Unfortunately, absent
other specific actionable intel knowledge, even such generic
warnings picked up can't be acted on. So this is rather moot,
what are you going to do, lock down a country everytime
someone holds their fist in the air and wishes or swears...
please. Let's get back to real police work. And understand
that freedom isn't free.